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Purton. A Case in the Star Chamber. 



"3 Item whether any of the Church Wardens dyd commaunde the said 

 Browne and Jackes to take awey the said Image and to cary hit to Joys 

 house And what was hys name that gaue the comandement. 



"4 Item whether Browne and Jaakes or any of them did confesse the 

 taking awey of the said Image from the church aforsaid And whether they 

 toke the same ageyne oust of the woll house and soo caryed hyt to the church 

 ageyn. or who caryed the same to the church. 



"5 Item who commaunded them to bryng the same Image to church 

 and what was the cause or did they bryng hyt of ther free will. 



" 6 Item whether Benet Jeye dyd occupie at will of Sir Edmund Brygges 

 xix acres of lond in Puryton And whether he surrendrid and gaue vp the 

 same into master Brigges handes at Puryton. And who were present at the 

 same surrendre and for what purpose was the same 



" 7 Item whether Sir Edmond Brygges dyd convey awey hys tres ozte of 

 the said Joyes ferme grounde with as moch spede as he cold gett caryage or 

 whether he suffryd theym to lye of purpose to destroy Joyes grasse or noo 



" 8 Item whether the said Sir Edmund did vpon knowleage of the cuttyng 

 of the caluys cleuys and feete offer Joy a sufficient recompence or no 



" 9 Item whether George Browne standing vpon a wall of Joys threw 

 any grett stonys vpon any horse of Sir Edmund Briddges and by whose 

 comaundment he so dyd. 



" 10 Item was the dede that Joye claymyth the farme of Puryton by the 

 same dede that Precy and Eranklen made lyuery and in what yere made they 

 lyuery And what was the cause that Isabell wife to Joy was named in the 

 dede before her brother G-ylys being x yeres elder then Isabell or was Isabell 

 present at such lyuery And what sayd yow at the lyuery And for how 

 many lyues was the lesse And whoo was by at the lyuery and how long was 

 the same agoo 



" 11 Item dyd you here Isabell redd or named in the dede or noo and wher 

 was she at the lyuery / or was Gylis ther or shuld Gylys haue the ferme yf 

 he had lyuyd before Elizabeth or noo And how old ys Elizabeth. 



" 12 Item whether was old Pully and Franklyn frindes one yere before 

 Frankleyn dyed and after the busynesse on the hyll or noo and how long was 

 that agoo." 



" The Interrogatories on the part of Benet Jay and Elsebethe hys wyff 

 a geynst Syr Edmonde a Bregges knyght 



"i Item whether the late abbot and covent of the late monastery of 

 Maimsbere in the countte of Wylteschere by there dede indenttyd sealyd 

 with the sealys of the sayde abbot and covent beryng date the iiij th day of 

 September in the vij yere of the rayne of our late sovereyn lorde Kyng Henry 

 the viij th [4th Sept., 1515] by one assent and conssent dyd demyse graunte 

 and lett to farme to one Bycharde Pulley and Margaret hys wyff and to 

 Ambros Edmonde and to the sayd Essebell one of the sayde complaynauntes 

 and Gyllys there cheldren namyd in the sayd indenture and byll the sayde 

 syte of the sayd manor of Purtton with thappurtenaunces and the parsonage 

 of Puryton afforesayde with all tythys and landdys to the sayde syte and 



